Admissions Now! Quick Tips – Post #2

This week’s Quick Tips – Post #2 comes from one of our supportive advisors, who just so happens to have applied at least 4 times, for 4 different children…you’re right if you guessed that she has some organizational skills! Thanks, Liz!

I took a quick tally of the number of times we’ve applied a child for a new school entry point and I came up with 12! Each of these 12 times we applied to 4-15 institutions so here is my Admissions Quick Tip to help make the process easier for you.

DEVISE A WELL ORGANIZED SYSTEM TO ASSURE YOUR ADMISSION FILES ARE COMPLETE

Whether you use an Excel spreadsheet, handmade chart or a blank piece of paper attached to the school’s literature with a large black paper clip, make a detailed checklist of every step that you need to do in order to make your child’s file complete.

Every school has variations on what is required so make these checklists as specific as needed to increase your success and lessen stress as you proceed through the process. Include due dates for each item.

-The small details to complete a file add up quickly so I always prefer to block several hours of quiet work time to create an individualized complete checklist for each school.

-You’ll notice that checking some items off the list will require you to login to an online system or make a phone call to politely inquire if a student’s file is complete. Get requests for recommendations and transcript transfers in early and allow several weeks for these to arrive before you call to check on a complete file.

The more attention I put to this early in the process, the easier it is to know that, once my file is complete, it’s time to sit back, relax and remind myself that it’s out of my hands.

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These are tried and true tips. Simple things like, thank you note to interviewer can easily be overlooked. Please print this post and put it on your cork board, refrigerator door, or any reminder area of your home. It’ll help you stay focused and sane.